Snow Peak

Snow Peak GigaPower Stainless Steel Stove - Auto

• auto ignitor
• 3.75 oz.

Product Description

214956 Features: Don't bother with cumbersome heavy stoves ever again to carry one of the lightest weight stoves on the market that weighs a mere 375 ounces Keep it powered up with GigaPower fuel, an isobutane and propane mix Despite its small, extremely compact size, it puts out 10,000 BTUs to boil water and simmer with mega-performance Count on durable stainless steel, aluminum and brass construction to last for camping trips to come Make getting started that much easier with the auto-ignition function Specifications: Weight (no fuel): 375 ounces Packed size: 4-1-8 x 2-5-8 inches (stove); 1-3-4 x 2 x 3-1-2 inches (case) Fuel: propane to isobutane mixture

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• ASIN: B001SMOWHQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,629 in Clothing (See Top 100 in Clothing)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars sooner or later, ignition switch will fail, July 9, 2011

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J. chapman (seattle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Snow Peak GigaPower Stainless Steel Stove - Auto (Apparel)

First off, this is a great stove for backpacking. The stove boils water like a champ. If you keep it on high, it'll boil very fast, but waste a lot of fuel. As far as car camping goes, I'd prefer something like the traditional Coleman double burner one that's around forty or fifty bucks. This snowpeak stove is small, lightweight and reliable. The only things about it that I don't like are the fact that I have had two of the ignition switches fail on me and also the trickiness involved with getting this stove to simmer anything.

The ignition switch can be replaced, but it will cost around ten bucks to buy a new one. Buy this one if you like, but always bring a lighter/matches just in case it decides to fail. If I had to do it all over again, I'd buy the one that you need to use your lighter to light.

Getting the flame down to a nice simmer is very tricky because as soon as you turn it down and take your fingers off the valve handle, it will open up just a little bit and the flame will be higher than you want. My trick is to slowly close the valve until the flame *just* goes out. Take your hands off the valve. Then use the ignition switch or a lighter and light it again without touching the fuel valve.

In my opinion, if you already have a pot/cup that you like to use to boil water in and are trying to go lightweight, then consider the snowpeak. If you're just putting together your backpacking kitchen things, and have a little more money to spend, then consider one of the jetboil packages. If you want lightweight, convenient and have extra cash, get the jetboil titanium setup.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast cooker!!!, January 14, 2011

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M15011 "M15011" (Left Coast) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Snow Peak GigaPower Stainless Steel Stove - Auto (Apparel)

I got this because of its size & price.
Heats very quickly & will hold a 6" pan.
I cooked green chilaquiles with scrambled eggs & they turned out great in less than about 3 minutes.
The built in ignition works great.
I will recommend this to my family & friends.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Small and Powerfull, August 6, 2011

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Fred E. Elum "Relative Ethics is like trying ... (The South) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Snow Peak GigaPower Stainless Steel Stove - Auto (Apparel)

I bought this stove for the purpose of boiling water in an emergency. It really is limited to boiling water at full blast. I tried to cook eggs in the pan from a Snow Peak Trek 900 cookset and nearly incinerated the eggs on low. The thin walled titanium pan/lid didn't help that at all. It worked great when I cooked eggs in my small expensive 5 layer aluminum core cookware.

It is lightweight and very small. It appears to me to be about 10,000 btu as advertised. It is very dangerous to use it on a utensil much larger than the fuel canister. The heat can build up on the fuel canister very easily. The stove does not have a regulator which causes fluctuation in the heat output when the canister gets below 60% (the heat mass drops which slows boiling of the fuel which lowers pressure in the canister).

I bought the wind screen with it and it is dangerous to use. The windscreen gets red hot and the IR heats the fuel canister. As the direction indicate never use the windscreen with a pot larger than the windscreen. When using the windscreen I keep touching the fuel canister to make sure it doesn't get too hot. If I can't touch it with my hand it is too hot to stay on. This gives enough time to boil in the Trek 900 pot (0.9L) and then you need to let the canister cool.

Overall, I love the compact size and power of this stove. It works best to boil water quickly for drinking, cleaning, or preparing freeze dried food. I would not recommend it for any sustained or complex cooking. The stove requires constant attention.